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This year's theme of the conference is "Value for People and Populations: Investing in Integrated Care". The event will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care.

We all long to live in places where our local or regional authority works for its citizens; where we have hassle-free interactions with the administration, can deal with them electronically if we want to, where we know our data is handled appropriately, but where we can also engage and make our voices heard about decisions that will impact our lives. Building on the input received during the co-creation workshop on 12 April 2018, the European Commission now organises this workshop to further define the content and the governance of a quality label for user-centric cities and regions.

The mid-term evaluation of the Creative Europe programme (2014 – 2020) was adopted by the Commission on 30 April 2018. It outlines the achievements of the programme while addressing its main shortcomings, building on the independent evaluation report, direct experience in managing the programme and wide consultations with stakeholders.

Commissioner Gabriel’s project of a creating an online directory of European films has received large support by the audiovisual sector last week in Cannes. Further to a roundtable organised in the context of the Cannes festival on 15 May 2018 on this subject, a number of organisations signed a manifesto supporting the project.

European Maker Week is a celebration of makers and innovators from all over Europe. During this event, the H2020 Project OpenMaker is organising this High-Level Policy Workshop. The main objective of the event is to imagine, discuss and define the European Industrial Policy Framework of the future, starting from the emerging open manufacturing paradigm and the socially-oriented and tech-driven spirit of the maker movement.

Trieste (IT) and Bilbao (ES) are inviting all potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their pre-commercial procurement about life-cycle sustainable solutions for poluted site decontamination (POSIDON). Other procurers cooperating in this project are Spaque (BE), Vitoria Gasteiz (ES) and Baja do Tejo (PT). The open market consultation meetings will take place on 7 June in Trieste, 21 June in Bilbao and 25 September in Brussels.

The European Commission has published this week a Commission Notice "Guidance on Innovation procurement". The guidance clarifies what is meant by innovation procurement, outlines how to setup a policy framework that is necessary to make strategic use of innovation procurement and describes how different public procurement procedures can be put at work to modernize public services with innovative solutions and create growth and jobs for innovators in Europe.

This EU-supported study analyses the possibilities for using European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to develop the uptake of cloud computing, and provides guidance on how to accelerate the development of cloud computing infrastructures and services. The key message is that cloud computing has the potential to offer regions access to advanced computing capacity on a service and cost-shared pay-per-use basis. This can reduce the need to invest heavily in prohibitively expensive data centres, hardware and software.